This week we take a look at some of the pictures which have recently been added to the Sharing Wycombe’s Old Photographs website www.swop.org.uk.
These are added in batches of about 300 every month or so. The latest batch contains the usual eclectic mix of photographs.
Quite a few of them show the people who attended the different functions which clubs and associations in the district organised in the 1950s.
Here we show some typical examples, all of which are from July 1956.
These are senior pupils of Wycombe Court School dressed in costumes representing fashions from 1815 to 1928 at their Open Day, Church Rd, Lane End:
Visitors to the Horticultural Society’s annual show at Bledlow Ridge around the ever-popular “Spinner” stall:
Watching the events at the Infantile Paralysis Fellowship Sports Day at the Royal Grammar School, Amersham Hill, High Wycombe:
These visitors to the fete organised by the Gerrards Cross Community Association are testing their skill on the “roll-a-penny” sideshow, East Common, Gerrards Cross:
These are members and guests of the HW & District Furniture Trades Benevolent Association at their Bowls Tournament, Chestnut Ave, High Wycombe:
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